Desk for attachment to furniture drawers



Feb. 3, 1953 D L 2,627,444

DESK FDR ATTACHMENT T0 FURNITURE DRAWERS Filed Jan. 18, 1952 INVENTOR. SAMUEL DAVID ALTMAN Patented Feb. 3, 1953 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DESK FOR ATTACHMENT TO FURNITURE DRAWERS 2 Claims.

This invention relates to an attachable device wherewith any usual article of furniture equipped with drawers, as a chiffonier, dresser, or drawer chest, can be converted to serve as a desk, the invention being particularly advantageous in situations wherein a desk or table is not available or cannot be had for lack of floor space.

The principal object of the invention is to provide an improved device for the aforesaid purpose, which will be salable at low cost, rigid, strong, durable, reliable, and conveniently and efficiently utilizable.

Another object is to provide such device with simplified, efficient, and improved means for its installation in connection with any usual furniture drawer.

A further object is to provide such device with simplified, eflicient, and improved means for rendering the desk board thereof readily and conveniently inoperative and completely out of sight during non-use and for restoring it to operative condition in connection with the drawer to which it is attached.

Other objects and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings,

Fig. 1 is a general elevational View, partly in cross-section, showing the attachable desk constituting the invention, as it appears when in extended operative position, in connection with a drawer of an article of furniture with which it is used.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the attachable desk shown in Fig. 1, in an enlarged scale.

Fig. 3 is a side elevational view, in a substantially full size scale, illustrating the mechanism and parts of the invention, as they appear when the desk is in operative state.

Fig. 4 is a rear elevational view of as seen in Figs. 1, 3.

The device I constituting the invention includes a utilitarian desk table board 2, to the rear end of which are secured, by means of bolts 3, downwardly extending posts 4, each of which is provided with a laterally projecting arm 5 having a journal 6 mounted in a bearing 1 of a fitting 8, the latter being securable, as shown in Figs. 3, 4, by means of screws 9 to the interior side 10 of the wall ll of a drawer l2 of any conveniently available article of furniture, as the chiflonier l3 illustrated in Fig. 1. When the desk device I is securedly attached and installed in the operative condition shown in Fig. 1, in connection with a drawer l2 of furniture l3, its table board 2 may be swung about its hinges 6, I in the operative position shown, in which condition it is firmly and securely supported in the extended state shown, by its rear portion resting firmly upon the upper rim of the front drawer wall II and being anchored by its posts 4 and the fittings 8 fastened the device,

to said wall. When the table 2 is not being used it may be swung backwardly about its hinges 6, 1, as indicated by the arrows, to a location entirely within the drawer l2, as shown by the dash and dot lines, in which position the table 2 is retained more firmly by abutting against projecting heads 14 of screws I5 threaded in the wall II, and the table 2 thus assumes a horizontal inoperative location within the drawer [2.

Variations may be resorted to within the scope of the invention, and the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. The combination of a board for attachment to the front wall of a living room furniture drawer to serve as a desk, said drawer being of a width and depth ample to receive said board in a horizontal disposition, a pair of fittings securable to the interior surface of said wall, said board carrying a pair of posts at its rear end, said posts being hinged about a fixed axis to said fittings whereby said board may be swung backwardly about said hinging to a horizontal inoperative location interiorly of said drawer, said board being swingable forwardly about said hinging from said inoperative horizontal location to an operative disposition exteriorly of said drawer, and said board when in said operative disposition being supported by said fixed axis hinging and by resting on the upper rim of said wall.

2. A desk for attachment to the front wall of a furniture drawer having the combination of a table board, a pair of fittings securable to the interior surface of said wall, said board carrying a pair of posts at its rear end, said posts being hinged about a fixed axis to said fittings whereby said board may be swung backwardly about said hinging to a horizontal inoperative location interiorly of said drawer, said board being swingable forwardly about said hinging from said inoperative location to an operative disposition exteriorly of said drawer, said board when in said operative disposition being supported by said posts and fittings and by resting on the upper rim of said wall, the interior surface of said wall having an abutment, and said board bearing against said abutment when it is in said inoperative location.

SAMUEL DAVID ALTMAN.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,662,675 Innes Mar. 13, 1928 1,770,119 Zimmerli July 8, 1930 1,887,102 Mathie Nov. 8, 1932 1,999,705 Sintz Apr. 30, 1935 

